Cool!!!

My thanks to ataniell93 for the info and link - they've found a way to read the Oxyrhynchus Papyri using infrared techniques. If this doesn't mean anything to you (I'd never heard of them either before I saw this), just go click on the link. Loads and loads of ancient Greek and Roman poetry, plays etc... much of which has hitherto been lost.

Fred's moved again

In fact it was several days ago, but I forgot to mention it in here. He's at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey, Building 10, room 1016, bed 2. Lee Gold is printing out and forwarding email sent to fredpatten@comcast.net to him so he'll see it. Anybody familiar with Rancho Los Amigos knows this is probably the best place he could be right now.

To add to the fun, whilst helping pack up his stuff, I noticed from the address on an envelope that he and I lived within half a block of each other back when I was 14. Small world...